If I had a choice, I’d get the pale green-ish “Aqua Celadon” colour that is the alternative. The dark “Ponder Blue” colour I have shows up smudges very easily though, and it’s not long before you’re itching to wipe it down with a cloth. The design is handsome and distinctive, with the matte finished lid featuring contrast lines slashing across the surface, and the Asus Zenbook branding in barely visible text in a corner. The body of the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED is made out of aluminium alloy and feels quite premium. Asus has pulled out all stops when it comes to hardware. The publicity material accompanying the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED describes it as the “crown jewel” of Asus’s laptop lineup and it’s easy to see why. Apart from the chipsets, the configurations are virtually identical with both models sporting 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD, and the name-worthy OLED screen. The one that I have with me, running the Core i7-1260P, sells for Rs 1,04,990. The base configuration costs Rs 89,990 and comes with the Core i5-1240P.

I must mention that the original review unit that I received was defective, with some battery and thermal issues, but the replacement unit I received worked flawlessly.Īsus has launched a number of laptops with 12th generation Intel chips but this particular model, the Zenbook 14 OLED, comes only in two configurations. I’ve used it extensively over the past couple of weeks and even had the opportunity to briefly compare it with the M1 Macbook Air, so read on to find out how it fared.

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